1.Prefaceto The Third Edition
2.Coping With The First Few Weeks
Reacting To The Redundancy; Saying Goodbye; Dealing With Loss; Coping With The First Few Days; Checklist For The First Few Weeks;
3.Handling Your Finances
Checkpoints For Your Redundancy Package; Using Your Redundancy Money; Organising Your Personal Budget; Using The Benefit System; Checkpoints; Projects; Self-Assessment;
4.Making Changes
Coping With Change; Looking After Your Health; Using Positive Thinking; Managing Your Time;
5.Re-Defining Your Value System
Why Work?; Assessing Your Skills And Strengths; Your Ideal Career;
6.Setting Up A Career Development Strategy
Researching The Job Market; Returning To Study; Organising Your Jobsearch Strategy; Jobsearch On The Internet; Making Speculative Contacts; Using The Media; Starting To Network; Creating Your Own Job;
7.Overcoming Barriers
What Are Barriers?; Building Up Shattered Confidence; Breaking Down Expectations; Looking At Our Values;
8.Choosing A Mode Of Work
Interim Management; Becoming A Consultant; Teleworking; Buying A Franchise; Being A Portfolio Person; Temporary Work; Flexi-Time; Jobsharing; Contract Working; Part-Time Working; Working Abroad; Choosing To Be Self-Employed;
9.Selling Yourself
The Selling Process; The Buying Process; Reading The Job Advertisement; Creating Your Cv; Electronic Applications; Using The Telephone; Effective Letter Writing; Interview Techniques; How To Fluff An Interview;
10.Training And Education
What Is Learning?; Basic Education; Esol; Further Education; Adult Education; Access Courses; Higher Education; Distance Learning; Online Learning; How To Find Out About Courses; Nvqs; Costs And Funding;
11.Your Way Forward
Using What You Have; Using Effective Thinking Skills; Giving Yourself Positive Strokes; Ten Steps To Feeling Positive; Improving Your Self Image; Developing A Philosophical Attitude; Your Positive Achievements Journal1; Setting And Achieving Goals; Endings